Today the thing I'm choosing to be overspecifically annoyed by is people who are obsessing about benzene in sunscreen but don't wear hazmat gear when fueling their car (gas is full of it). Benzene is pretty benign. Choose a career where you don't breathe it daily and chill out.
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Most of what we learned about occupational exposure over 50 years: 1. Feed anything to a rat in big enough quantities and it gets cancer. 2. Don't work in unventilated spaces with stuff
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Gardening is an excellent way to convince yourself that we would all starve without pesticides.
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I see a lot of people on this site not taking advantage of useful anxiety lifehacks. For example, if you're up every night panicked about runaway global warming, there's no need to worry about what's in your kids' food.
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pesticide use can be greatly reduced by using farming methods other than "belligerent white man screams that he knows best"
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Hopefully the farmers of the world will see your tweet and learn
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Our need for effective pesticides is greatly exaggerated by the dominance of monoculture farming.
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Sure but that doesn't mean we should do without them. We should use maybe 95% less, but they still have their place.
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Do we know why some people don’t fall into that kind of thinking as much
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…Uhhhh, one of these things is not like the others…
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